Trump is a child in an older man’s body: Analyst

The American people elected a “serial liar” and a “70 year old child” when they voted for Donald Trump to be president in 2016, a political analyst and former congressional candidate says.

“Trump is a child in an older man’s body having the mentality of a grade schooler and his finger on the nuclear button. Not a good combination,” said Myles Hoenig, who ran for Congress in 2016 as a Green Party candidate.

“He’s a serial liar. Whether it be the size of his inauguration to whether he paid off a porn star, anything that makes him look good is highlighted, exaggerated, or even invented,” Hoenig said in an interview with Press TV on Thursday.

“He’ll never reach a level of maturity fitting a US president. And he still has his stalwart supporters standing behind him, even when his childishness is on full display,” he added. “But with world leaders distancing themselves from him and most Americans now see him as corrupt, the best we can do at the moment is try to minimize whatever damage he can cause and not take him seriously. He has not earned the respect that even a mediocre president has garnered.”

Trump proclaimed in a freewheeling speech to a conference of conservatives last weekend that “America is winning again,” despite a pronounced losing streak by his administration over the past week.

Trump is losing ground on top priorities to cut the trade deficit, curb illegal immigration and blunt North Korea’s nuclear program, setbacks that complicate his planned reelection message as a capable president who is making historic progress, The Washington Post said in an article on Thursday.

“The latest failure was the summit in Hanoi with North Korea. We don’t yet know the full story as to why it failed but according to Trump, Kim wouldn’t accept certain conditions regarding sanctions. Likely not true, as reports are coming out that the Korean delegation tried a last ditch effort to keep the dialog going.” Hoenig said.